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MAYRA GOMES! JS and Eugene Hütz and other gypsies in Rio. JS and Eugene Hütz on the bike in Copacabana.
read moreWithout ceremony, Mimo and the other two who’d come with him quickly unpacked their instruments and dove right into the impromptu jam session and it was on… Dolo was laughing as he fiddled away furiously, leading the groove as usual. His bow tore at the violin with such fury I expected the thing to start […]
read moreDolo’s cousin Dimitri was standing on the street waiting for us with a big black umbrella at the gate to the big house. Mimo parked the taxi and we unloaded the instruments and ran up to the the path in the rain under Dimitri’s umbrella. As we approached, I could hear the unmistakable mad bee […]
read moreDolo was an orphan, like me. Legend had it that he had been taken away from his Calao gypsy people after being caught stealing from a grocery store and put into a reform school in Minas Gerais. From there he was adopted by a respectable local gadji family who had given him an upper class […]
read more“And Sergei here’s another great violinista,” Mimo went on, gesturing to the other guy. “These guys come all way here now from Para to see Dolo and play with all us together. Big Roma gathering on the weekend… Gonna be ciganos from all the South America, even some come from far away in Europa… Like […]
read moreHalf an hour later I heard the familiar short toot of Mimo’s horn downstairs. I went to the window and gave him the sign… Narcisa was snoring softly and steadily now. I put the note I’d written on the table by her pack of cigarettes where she’d be sure to see it if she woke […]
read moreRussian existentialism dwells on two questions: “What to do?” and “Who is to blame?” Jonathan Shaw replaces them with: “What else can I do?” and “For the good and the bad, I take responsibility for all!” Which, at the end of the day, sums up a living example of human undestructability that’s hard to surpass. When I […]
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